Word: decentes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...investigators. In the eyes of the public the whole performance accrued to his personal credit. Actually, much of the investigative initiative was Rudy Halley's. Much of the evidence was old stuff contributed by friendly cops and newspapermen. The committee achieved one really important result. It brought the decent, dishwashing, baby-feeding public face to face with the curled lip of organized crime, and taught the people to vote against public officials who have condoned...
...want to congratulate you on the stand you have taken in the Feb. 25 issue against the Ku Klux Klan. I think all decent people in the South resent the Klan and its activities. The class of people who make up this organization are generally of the lower class, and most of them are very illiterate and easily misled...
...gulp came into my throat when I read your Feb. 18 article on King George VI. "This simple, decent man." What a tribute. There could be none higher...
...Then he or she can return to the room, and no one will know who did it.' They covered their eyes. The teacher heard tiny footsteps going to the door. It opened and closed. Pause. Opened and closed again. Pitter-patter of little feet back. After a decent interval she said: 'All right, children, we can open our eyes again.' Blinking, she made her way through the door to see that all was sanitary again. Outside the door were two puddles and a note: 'The Phantom strikes again...
...neck and humbly accepting the spiritual chastisement that invariably followed. His pride took a sharp beating in his very first job, in the clinic of a lunatic asylum: he was nearly strangled to death by a patient whom he had urged the superintendent to release as "such a decent chap." It took another beating at the hands of the crusty old general practitioner who took him on as an assistant and harnessed him mercilessly to the back-breaking round of rural practice...